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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
‘This Should Be a National Scandal’: Medicare Advantage Plans Using AI for Denials
Topics: Banana republic, Health care
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:45 am | 32 Comments »
As Russia Signals It Can Achieve Maximalist Aims in Ukraine, How Would Russia Manage Kiev and Western Ukraine?
Russia is presumably thinking hard about not just how to conclude the war in Ukraine, but what happens the morning after.
Topics: Banking industry, Currencies, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Legal, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:28 am | 153 Comments »
We Are Seventeen Years Old
Thank all of you for keeping us fit and feisty after so many years!
Topics: Notices
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:25 am | 73 Comments »
The Trouble with Nouns
Classification struggles in the Harvard-Harris poll on Israel.
Topics: Guest Post, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 1:55 pm | 37 Comments »
Links 12/17/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 229 Comments »
As Foundation for ‘Excited Delirium’ Testimony by Police Cracks, Fallout Spreads
Rooting out the concept of “excited delirium” will take time in a country where law enforcement is spread across roughly 18,000 agencies governed by independent police chiefs or sheriffs.
Topics: Banana republic, Health care, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 17 Comments »
Links 12/16/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:59 am | 144 Comments »
The No-State Solution Becomes More and More Real as Israel’s Permanent Nakba Continues
Why ethnic cleansing of Palestinians has been foundational to Israel’s national strategy.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Middle East, Politics, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:43 am | 136 Comments »
Yanis Varoufakis: Europe’s 15-Year Slump
The survival of the euro has come at the cost of Europe’s permanent stagnation and continuing fragmentation
Topics: Banking industry, Currencies, Doomsday scenarios, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:26 am | 14 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 12/15/2024
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 82 Comments »
Western Policymakers Are Panicking Because There Was No Plan B if the Counteroffensive Failed
A recap of how the US and NATO painted themselves in a corner with Project Ukraine.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:48 am | 227 Comments »
Links 12/15/2023
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 105 Comments »
Who Is Luis Caputo, Argentina’s New Economy Minister (Who Is Already Making the Economy Scream)?
Meet the new boss, same as the old.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:45 am | 38 Comments »
Hungary Vetos €50 Billion EU Funding Package for Ukraine; Fuming EU Leaders Promise Workaround, but How?
Yet another shot below the water line for sinking Project Ukraine.
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Europe, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, Russia
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:25 am | 51 Comments »
CDC’s Weak and Vague N95 Guidelines Endanger Health Workers, Conflict with Cal/OSHA Standards
In the Covid version of fiddling while Rome burns, cheap hospital systems hide behind the CDC to avoid issuing N95s to front line workers
Topics: Doomsday scenarios, Guest Post, Health care, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:20 am | 7 Comments »